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  1. Acquisitions, Divestitures & Mergers

Nvidia Becomes the World’s Most Active $100 Million-Plus VC Investor

Five years ago, GPU maker Nvidia participated in just one venture funding round worth $100 million or more. Through the first eight months of 2026, the artificial intelligence ecosystem giant has reportedly participated in at least 53. That puts the semiconductor company ahead of Andreessen Horowitz, with 44 such rounds, Sequoia Capital with 42 and […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Federal Agencies Overhaul Bank Partner Rules to Drive Innovation

Four federal agencies are seeking comment on proposed guidance to help financial institutions manage risk associated with third-party relationships. The proposed third-party risk management guidance and the request for comment were announced Friday (Sept. 11) in a joint release issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve Board, the National Credit Union Administration […]
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

Rent the Runway Names Nordstrom Veteran Paige Thomas CEO

Rent the Runway appointed its chief commercial officer and Nordstrom veteran, Paige Thomas, as CEO, president and member of the board of directors, the company said in a Friday (Sept. 11) press release. Thomas joined the company as CCO in June. Before that, she served as chief merchant and product innovation officer at Signet Jewelers, […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Apple Enables One-Tap Gift Card Redemption in Upcoming iOS Update

Apple’s upcoming mobile operating system, iOS 27, will enable users to redeem Apple gift cards by tapping them on a compatible iPhone, MacRumors reported Wednesday (Sept. 9). The iPhone will scan a security chip in Apple’s gift cards to verify that the card is authentic and unspent in an attempt to reduce scams, the report […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Visa Direct Targets Cross-Border Trade’s SMB Payment Gap

Watch more: PYMNTS On Air With Justin Zhao of Visa Direct and Ran Grushkowsky of MassPay  A small business can find a customer, supplier or contractor halfway around the world in minutes, then may spend several days trying to determine where the payment went. For a small or mid-sized business (SMB), sending funds abroad can […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Squint’s Founder Turns Factory Know-How Into AI’s Starting Point

Ask a veteran factory technician how to fix a machine that’s acting up, and the answer might sound less like an engineering manual and more like folklore: if it smells like this, hit it three times on the left side and it comes back to life. That kind of knowledge never gets written down. It […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Sam Altman Floats Industrywide Pause as Frontier AI Safety Concerns Grow

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the firm is considering slowing down its development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 11), citing unnamed sources. Altman said that he hopes other AI labs will join OpenAI in the slowdown, but that some may not do so, according to the […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

California Starts Regulating the People Who Audit AI

California has moved beyond requiring companies to examine the risks of artificial intelligence and has begun regulating the people hired to perform those examinations. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday (Sept. 9) signed two bills that California described as the nation’s first framework for independent AI verification organizations and auditors. A day later, he signed a companion chatbot […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

What a $13 Million DOJ Case Reveals About B2B’s KYB Problem

The next frontier of know your business (KYB) may have surprisingly little to do with knowing whether a business exists. Instead, the governance and operational advantage is shifting to how a business has changed since Firm A last engaged with Firm B, or C or D, and so on. A federal case announced Wednesday (Sept. […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Mastercard Sees Digital Wallet Users Exceeding 6 Billion by 2030

By 2030, more than 6 billion people could be using digital wallets. That’s according to Mastercard, which on Thursday (Sept. 10) introduced a set of solutions designed to help wallet providers offer a better user experience. Mastercard Wallet Pay is “designed to foster interoperability and innovation” for digital wallets across contactless (NFC), QR codes and online digital payments, […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Visa and Mastercard Team With Ant on Know Your Agent Framework

Ant International is working with Visa and Mastercard to develop a know your agent (KYA) interoperability framework, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 9) press release. The effort is designed to help card networks, digital wallet ecosystems, agent platforms and marketplaces streamline artificial intelligence agent onboarding and identification across networks, per the release. “AI agents are […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Triggers Senate Probe

Lawmakers in the United States are pushing for new rules to govern artificial intelligence, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 10). The effort follows an incident in which OpenAI’s agents hacked the company Hugging Face, as well as comments from Joshua Coxon, an Anthropic researcher worried about AI escaping human control, the report said. Coxon announced earlier […]
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